When I use Adium or iChat on my Mac now, I only see people's custom status if they are set to 'away.' Other people I know are experiencing this same behavior and I can't find any documentation of why or exactly when this changed last week.

I have experienced a lot of strange behaviors from my chat apps recently too. Not what you're describing, but a bunch of other things, at worjk and at home, on Macs, with iChat and Adium. I don't have a solution, but you're not the only one having problems.posted by lekvar at 12:46 PM on May 15, 2007

FWIW, I signed on w/ iChat yesterday for the first time in about a week, and I got a handful of popup notices about offline messages that had been left for me. I don't know if offline messaging has been around for a while or not, but it was new to me. (One of them was from some strange person named "Brave Woman." :p)posted by Hankins at 7:54 AM on May 16, 2007

hmmmm, returned to normal as of tonight.posted by machaus at 7:10 PM on May 18, 2007

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